OM's whereabouts for the next week or so...

"Reunite Gondwanaland (Mary Shafer)" wrote in
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On Fri, 09 Jun 2006 17:38:27 -0500, Pat Flannery
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Reunite Gondwanaland (Mary Shafer) wrote:

She, like you, didn't
fall or anything, just stepped down on it wrong. She had several sets
of surgery, with a variety of hardware included,

Titanium implants.

Or chromium cobalt, which is what the implant in my knee is. It's the
dental implants, all six of them, that are titanium.

Mary "I have a titanium butterfly, too"

I know a few guys that can't talk much about their previous work. One of
them tells stories about designing titanium fittings that ended up being
machined by a Russian guy in Chicago, because he was the only one in the US
with the skills necessary to do the intricate machining required for these
fittings.

Of course, I don't have any idea what the fittings were used on, since he
can't talk about what they were used for. Plus I have no idea what the
fittings even looked like, since he can't talk about that either. ;-)

Jeff
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"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a
little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor
safety"
- B. Franklin, Bartlett's Familiar Quotations (1919)

In article ,
Jeff Findley wrote:
I know a few guys that can't talk much about their previous work...

At Space Access, Chuck Lauer of Rocketplane Kistler (formerly Rocketplane,
formerly Pioneer Rocketplane) said that the joke around their office is:
"Dave Urie has designed 37 different hypersonic vehicles, only three of
which he can talk about." Urie is their program manager, and was formerly
with the Lockheed Skunk Works.
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On Mon, 12 Jun 2006 23:28:19 GMT, (Henry Spencer)
wrote:

In article ,
Jeff Findley wrote:
I know a few guys that can't talk much about their previous work...

At Space Access, Chuck Lauer of Rocketplane Kistler (formerly Rocketplane,
formerly Pioneer Rocketplane) said that the joke around their office is:
"Dave Urie has designed 37 different hypersonic vehicles, only three of
which he can talk about." Urie is their program manager, and was formerly
with the Lockheed Skunk Works.

I know Dave. He's a really nice guy and a great engineer and I'll bet
there's a lot he can't talk about, because I know some of the things
he can and they're awesome. One of them got declassified after twenty
years or so, for example. Talk about a revelation! A lot of people
thought he was working on F-117 instead, being the right place and the
right time.

Mary
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Mary Shafer Retired aerospace research engineer
We didn't just do weird stuff at Dryden, we wrote reports about it.
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